Our First ‘Phone Call’
My daughters are in kindergarten this year. Today we got our first call from their teacher. Apparently, Aubrey pinched someone. Callie said that Aubrey realized when her teacher…
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Evil Wrapped in Chocolate
My buddies at work find bacon chocolate chip cookies. That is gross and disturbing. My wife found a recipe for truffles made with Oreos mixed with cream cheese and coated with…
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Elastic Cloud Computing
One of the most difficult tasks when putting up a new site is picking the right host. Moving hosts later on is terribly difficult so choosing the correct hosting company is as…
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Buddy Press Activity
There is a lot of buzz on the BuddyPress mailing list now that there is a list. What is interesting and cool is that the group is interested in using standards like OAuth…
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Fences
Now that the weather has warmed up a bit around here all of a sudden all my neighbors want to put up fences. I’m not exactly sure what I did, but I must admit that it is a bit…
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Interesting Things From Today
I ate pickle soup. It was awesome. Try new things you might be surprised. Evolution is bullshit. If it were real mankind would have evolved such that his hair did not migrate from…
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Make Facebook Butt Out
Marion told me that he rented ‘Enchanted’ for his kids from Blockbuster.com. Now in all his friend’s feeds it says ‘Marion rented Enchanted’. Maybe I am not truly social yet, but…
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BuddyPress
There’s real information on the BuddyPress site today. I am so excited. This is one of the first steps towards easy to create, distributed social networks. Hopefully it is as easy…
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Battlestar Galactica
I will show my true geek here. Battlestar Galactica will be back on the air this Friday night. I am so excited. When I was a kid I watched the original series all the time. I will…
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Ringside Networks
I have been writing quite a bit lately about open Social Networks and the infrastructure that I think will emerge from WordPress to help fill that niche. Then David sends me to…
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Walmart is Not so Evil
Normally you wouldn’t find me extolling the virtues of a large corporation like Walmart, but this article that Marion sent me outlines how Walmart was a lot more helpful during…
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Ruby Grand Masters
I spent two years in Japan. While there I met all kinds of interesting people. I remember one individual in particular because he was a chess grand master). He was also very good…
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Cache Valley
The Desert News is saying what we already know. Cache Valley is a great place to live. Of course the numbers don’t tell the actual story. This is a great place to live because it…
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Chocolate
On the way back from the Mountain West Ruby Conference we dropped by xocolate in Salt Lake. They have a mole chocolate made with something that will set your mouth on fire. I…
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FamilySearch Developer Webinar
I just got an invite to a FamilySearch Webinar. I imagine you are supposed to be a member of the developer group to attend, but I doubt they would throw you out. Here’s the…
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Lifetime Marriage
In church today an older lady stood up and said she was grateful for her marriage of 60 years. I was impressed. I think that the divorce today tends to discourage people from…
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More Ruby Conference
We missed the first talk this morning (sorry Devlin we suck). I slept till 9:30, but mainly because we were up till 4am. Dave South gave me some great info on using TestSpec…
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Using Amazon’s Web Services from Ruby – Jonathan Younger
Right Scale has a great gem: gem install right\_aws RightScale RightAws::Sqs RightScale RightAws::Ec2 They will automatically retry errors for you. gem install kato Kato – EC2…
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Mountain West Ruby Conference
I’m at the Mountain West Ruby Conference for the next few days so I will be doing a bunch of blog posts that look like notes. Up right now: Strengthening the Ruby Ecosystem & Ezra…
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Let Levi Ride
Team Astana has been barred from the Tour de France and all other ASO events this year which means that Levi Leipheimer won’t be able to ride which is absurd. Team Astand is…